One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTERTo listen to Earth’s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger
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I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys.
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Seated one day at the organ
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Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming,
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One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.
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Lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.
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True or false, that never dies
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Be strong, O Heart of mine, Look towards the light!
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Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was.
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No star is lost once we have seen
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Be strong to hope, O Heart! Though day is bright,
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But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
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Do not strive to grasp them all.
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And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret
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Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us
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One by one the sands are flowing
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